🛡️ CVE-2024-38807 — spring-boot-loader

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-290 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Signature forgery in Spring Boot's Loader

Applications that use spring-boot-loader or spring-boot-loader-classic and contain custom code that performs signature verification of nested jar files may be vulnerable to signature forgery where content that appears to have been signed by one signer has, in fact, been signed by another.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-38807 is classified as CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing. Identity is inferred from something an attacker can forge, such as a header or address.

Affected software

CVE-2024-38807 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader (from 3.3.0 up to 3.3.3)
  • org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic (from 3.3.0 up to 3.3.3)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 23 August 2024 and last revised on 27 March 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
security.netapp.com (Web)
spring.io (Web)

CVE-2024-38807 on other distributions

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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-290
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-23
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-03-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader 3.3.0 3.3.3
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic 3.3.0 3.3.3
unknown — —

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